The Sun. — London, England, 1808-12-29 00:00:00

retire to their owu p . r,praler, and throw thetuSelveS towards Cuenca. The divisions of cavalry of Generals LASALLE and MILHAUD were dire led to niar::ll on Portugal hY'Zalavery de la Reyua. His Majesty wished to spare Saragossa till Madrid had surrendered ; but. if that townwoullbe obitinate enough to make resistance, mines and bombs should bring it to reason. • The• English fly on every side. The di/ision -of LASALLE has, however, fallen in with 16 men of • the.ii, who have been put to the sword. They were s.tragglers, or such whb had gone astray. - Then follow some particulars of the siege ofßo . sas in Cataleniai whicl).had not surrendered ; but it is supposed theinhabitants were thinking to,e4: cuate, it. About 400 Englishmen, who had 1 3 Anded, were killed or driven into the sea by an Italian re , giment. An attack made by the Spaniards on the liuora, was repulsed with loss. TO CORRESPONDENTS. . We have no doubt that the subjed adverted to by, Our Correspondent, A PATRIOT," has engagtd the 'atten tion of those who have the direaion of the .Subscription for' the SPaniards, and we know that G °vent:tient has ad°l)4:c l'evryirreasure'requisite on ilia occasion. MAILS. ARR IV to--,1 Heligoland, I Dublin, z Waterford. C;Otten6ur6h, c Dublin, 3 Waterton:l. . . PRICE OF STOCKi • ~ THIS D:et Y . JIT TWELVE O'CLOCK. .: Consol3 .. - -66 i I kimnium ... ii dis. ___ - • il(4j wATEIZ AT LONDON Ifftil.)CE TO-MOP. ROW. ' l ' llllll g, o min. after o. I Afternoon, i 3 thin. after THE SUN SOLI:4 gtilS DiCLAL ' 7 . 4'1411;4 AUDAAT ? L 0 N'Et 0 1 7 , • i rtitiioDAlk, `Liz czkain 29, 1'66.8, NV E • i yesterday `cornmu n icatec t o our it--rt the " -It iligeoce brought from 'Cortinna 'by the °resits, a=ndstated our reasons fOr 'thinking, that, UpOn the. itivas.6f a 'satisfaabrynature. -The circum,' stance or (lie surrender of Madrid not being known" s • a=atnanca, oh the ath, ilor at Corimua On the i 4th, led us to . ritertain considerable doubts of the aCcia . c)r of the Statelitent contained in the•Moihieur upon That subject. In The ctjrse '6f the afternoon, hoW. e V 6 r, Our doubts were in a great 'deVee"rentdved, by he receipt-Of French Papers, containing the Four tietiV•ritieentlr, and Siktee'ilth Bulletins 'Of the n Airily. these Npers were not received are diva . I "Chanal, but were Conveyed ` 44 ' country in a IrKide 'similar to that which 44j4S adopted. in 1406; when. rttOs.'l4,-itttE wThhed i° acquaint ifs cif \ his. success at AusterlitZ. A boat, with the - 11foiiiteies On board, was turned adrift Nat Calais, and • having &Red nearly a c ross, .the tWritiel, was picked up by out Of our tOticttg toau-,- and brought into foyer, The paper *etre , i mmediately forwarded to Lond96; The 1411111'4* letin gives an account of the French Army and of l ue'Llrmr•ra hiinself :being before Madrid, Which :is stated to have been defended by 6000 troops; and 4 1 9,000 armed men, under the command 'of the "Marquis Di CA . ST. ELA AR. A correspendence took I:ilace between the Marquis and Marshal BlnerilEa, "tvhich, according to the French aucOuntii terminated in the surrender of the place,-on the 6tii. The de tails, however; are not . given with much p5tU -cisi ° ll ; - but it : . appears that after the plc 'was summoned, and before the capitulatiOn .took place, the French.stortned the Retiro,andtook possession of one of the suburbs. 'the account of these transaAions is given in the most insulting lan guage. The Citizens of Madrid, who accompanied .the Spanish - General when he came to the advanced posts to answer BaaTatAiis sununOns, arc described as ferocious -looking enc. whose appearance " re called th recolleainu of th 4 assassins of Septtin4- her." EU° P%ItTI4, Wila was at" that monient .be sieging the capital of a Kingdom with which he was at peace, and threatening the inhabitants with ,the . most dreadful vengeance if they presumed tote jlist his treacherous invasion, has the audacity to talk of ferocity and of' assassins ! But •it is :not. only in Bulletins that he sets the coml.. mon feelings of mankind at defiance ; in th1:01 interview- which took place, between hini and tfOtr i Spanish General MoncA, he gave way to all that - ri insolence which peculiarly characterizes 1140, and tat !: the very moment that be was acting in dOance of every principle of human and divine law, he has the effrontery to give the Spanish General a leeture upon the Law of Nation' 0. The Fifteenth Bulletin is merely occupied' with-an account of this disgusting scene: . . With respeft to the,Arnly of .General CAST4NOS, the: account giveni in these Bulletins ig very scant', 11 4,l lVears,.bowev e r, clear, that. he his effeCtedfrAit u xe.tt:eat, and , that the FrenCh had not followed Ifgthi in-aby foice. The 166 Bulletin, which i s dated 4,-1 Vial , ' ' .---,. .- . ,' Vi ac' ila the atb, aroirgiving an account of the re- i 'wards bedowed on the Officers, wto had distinguish ed themselves, states, that the divisions of Cavalry of Generals LASSELLE and MILHAUD were or dered to march towards Portugal, by Zelav era de la Regna. It is, not very . easy to, discover the 'objed of this manieuvre, for we can hardly sup_ 'pose that BTJONAPARTE will venture to trust a con siderable portion of his Army into Portugal, while so large Ipart of Spain remains unconquered., The English Army is „not mentioned in these BUlletins, but it is stated, with some .degree of triumph, that sixteen English stragglers were mur dered by a French diiision, under the command of General LASALLE. . Besides the Spanish Papers which have :a r rived, wa received this morning the Corunna biary, of the, 14th December. It .contains not a word of news, either foreign or domestic; 'its contents con sist only of a long elegy in 'honour of the 'Old& 'Don FRANciSCo BE'QUILNit, Major -Genera! in the Spanish Army, who being severely wounded in one. of the battles 'ip Biscay, died as he was conveying 'to Corunna on board a Spanish Frigate. Thei - e is also a list of a'few vOlUntarycontributionS. Danish . Ch iter, of 18 guns, frbm die Eastward, was captured by-'a❑ English Brig of War, and carried into'Carlsciona, on the 84hinstant. It is determined that the troops which have been for some time under orders, shall be immediately . embarked at Ramsgate. We understand the Bri gade of GOards from Chatham, and the 87th and 88th Regiments are aaually on their .march for that place,, where the ,embarkation will commehce this day. It is said twt. Major-General SPENCER will have. the Command of this force, and that he .will have under him AlajOi-Greral TiLsoN, and BrigaSfer-GeaeraI,QAMPBEL.I;. ~;13y letters from Ire '*diwc are further informed, that Or Royal Dra goons and the 2d battalion of the Ba, are aGtually.ou heir ruaNb for Cork, for embarkattati.. The total ntlMber of men under orders is about to;odo. 1 : 1f5 'Majesty% order 're-assemble 'the 13oatd'of Inquiry Upon the Convention of Cintra WaS "given, • we understand, upon a deed in the Report, .whieli did not state a difference of opinion entertained upon y. a Material point, submitted to its consideration ; with sufficient clearness. The Board,' we understand, re assembled accordingly, on Tuesday,, and amended'itS Repert, for the purpose of being laid, without delay, before his Majesty. • • „ • • In the account-Of the present:state' Of Rime, con tained in the Dutch Papers (Which of course, must report 'nothing but what will please the French Ruler), it is said that.the Pc= lives in a very retired, manner, and that " his table had Sdarce 'twenty corers." 'That 'the unfortunate . I)(intitf lives in a retire( manner can hardly be doubted, as, he has beets despoiled of all his dimities, and would_ most probably. be expOsed to the insults of his French Oppresiors . ilhe were lo appear in Itubije; but the account of las table is doubtless inserted With a 'view- to degrade the charadter of his Holiness, and to -induce The *cirld to belieie that he still maintains a • style of dethelfic riaxiiry un suitable. to his fallen fortunes. The Truth is,, that the Pope's mode ofliving is as Simple as possible, and- Was so belore his hurniliation, and That his extediat'e krsOnal . eicpences for fOod, &c..hardly (Ina!" that of our commonest artizans. Whatever ekpeoCe . a ty akend his doinestic e:stablislurient is not for his own graafication, bnt for the support of such of his i6 - Valits as are permitted to be with him, and For r'Whnnt he is now incapable of making any future pro ;visicin. It is but justice to the venerable Chi e f o f th e Roman Chufch to make 'this statement, howevei- ‘'v e May differ frorn him in religious opinion, and how ever .!ve may lament that he ever degraded his high chara&trr by obeyin 6. .the'c'etnriginds and con secrating the' (lead of, an b L7StirPer, who manifested his contempt of all religion by adopting that of every'Coinitry info • Whith . be and " his plundering hordes have carried misery and dest; uaion. . . -rceV trtampeter from the Swedish army was lately shot.in brat - Mg / a message to the Norwegians, not withstanding he sounded the instrument twice. The SWedish 'Commander in Chief had ,sent a remon strance .to the Danes on the subject, but they return ed him no satisfatqory answer. Letters from Stockholm mention that his Swedish Majesty has prohibited the int:matte:lion ,of English Newspapers into his dominions.) not troM a spirit of hostility, but because they have of late ,spoken in a tone of despondency when discussing the affairs Of Sweden, which he considers may have a bad Oka on the minds of his people. The Sheriff of Aberdeenshire, on. a complaint brought before him, at the instance of the Earl of FIFE and the Procurator Fiscal, .against a young man for trespassing, by shooting on his grounds for several days, accompanied by two boys and two poi n - ter dogs, and for having, by these means, frighten 'a countryman's horse so much that he was thrown 'frorri his cart and very much bruised, fined the tres passer in the statutory penalty of tool. Scots, (81. 6s. 3d. English) together with the expenee of pr6cess and extract: • THE Atm.—There is so much original merit in Wifit ' E' that the admirers o f gen i us mus t at a ll iiiiiesibiVkatified in tracing the progress of so ex tielittgatrt. artist. His last prodaelion is a repre sentation of a young woman in the last 'stage . of a consumption, and the manner in which .he has. treated the subject 'renders it highly interesting,and pregnant with moral utility; The viaim of this hopeless disease displays a calm resignation and pions fortitude. 'The parents exh,ibit tenderness and sym pathy,.burno unseemly violence of grief. The Phy sician, though familiar .to "affairs of death," ap pears to be strongly interested in the fate of bis pa tient, and the work altogether is a scene of. domes tic sorrow and submissitm, that powerfully evinces b theipiggiace with which the artist has observed the ri lassion ; s and chara&ers of mankind. The nice, but strongly marked, the-colouring O's citalte, 'yet vivid, and the wh o l e tincibly impresses I,.,the:tnintkond tends to awaken sympathy, .and in culcate patience and ouniniosis.)a to the ilivine will. !- NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Dole, HOWELL, from London, Sailed his Majesty's . Ships Thetii-,. for Cork; also the I' inlet and Ty cruize, and The Porttiguese ship Comntercianie, SANTOS, for Lisbon, . 'DEAL, DEC. 28.—Remaiii in the Dnwr4; - his Abjesty's . , Princess of Orange, Venerable, Bombay,. Leviathan, iustrious, Hero, Invincible, Christian V 11. Warspite,, De.: l euce, Agincourt; 'Trusty,. Osprey, .Podargeis; Peruvian, Zenobia, Clomen, Bustard, Crocus, Blazer, Ex,er tioni Furious, Fearless and lihrmoify Viduallers: DISTRIBUTION O 4 PRIZE MONEY. - - . To.the Gun-brig Earnest, for the Capture of ;he Exiet, 194 board, on her arriv a l i n p orr ,.., an d every " W e dne s day and. ' Thursday between. eleven and three, for three ; months, at No. 9, New Broad-street.. • , To the Fisgard, for the Capture:of the Kitty, on board at .Sheerness,,a,:cl afterwards at No. 2, James-street, Adelphi. To the indefatigable, for the Capture of La Diane and I.*Adele, at No. It, Cecil-steet, Strand. To the Bomb Zebra, for, the . Capture of the Danish Sloop Emersius, on board the said Sloop at Woolwich, on the 3.tst inst. andafterwards at No.. rt, Cecil-street, Strand. • • To the Sloop El - Corso and Pigmy Cutter, for the Capture of the st, Luigi, at No,„ 1,. James-street, Adel phi, on .th e 29t h' inst. and every Wednesday and Friday for three years, at the same place. To the SloOp Pert, for the Capture of the following yes selN.fit;hooner Eagie, Brig Dorothea, Brig Betsey, and Sloop Juliana, on. the 3oth inst. at, No. 1, Fishastreet, DOttors' Commons, and on Mondays and Fridays after, at the same place. • 21:12 iiCtiSTLE‘ • V:I S Oj.I7 7 ; KNE, DEC. . . On SatUrday afternoon, Durham Cathedral dock began for the first time to chithe the qi.tarters.: On 'Friday night, a gentlernan,.in passing the Mar ket-pface of North Shields, missed his road s rnd gut . above the knees in snow, when a man sprung upon his back, and with the greatest 'dexterity-picked his pecket . Of - his gold watch, and esc a ped: H e was , .however,apprehended on Saturday night, when he confessed the theft, and gave intelligence where the watch was deposited. His - reason for committing the a6flS - rather curious, viz. thqt he was weary . (if ' . On TiMrsday night a Warehouse at . the Limekiln.' shOre i North Shields., was broken into,ii4d aWbale 'line, belonging to the ship Katharine, stolen there from. .`Un Wednesday , night, during the perfortnance 'Of Life Below Stairs, one' -of the dresliing; rooms of North Shields *Thealre'took fire and sevtirni : dresSes were cOnsuined 'before the fiame3 were ex tinguished. There being au . ahu'redai - ice of snow in the streets, the fire .was soon got under by carrying buckets Tull into the theatre. .. NA VAt ANECDOTE. -- The English are Charged, and perhaps not unjustly, with maiiileiting; - on too . , many . oecasions, a derogating opinion of ;he condUct* ,, oftheir enemy. :t is wffil much satisfadirin; there-, fore, We state the following' reccnt fiti, so .hononr able , to the diameter of a .vanqulshed . Yrench . Ch!1) - - : inander. After the desperate aelion between hiS Majesty's Frigate Virginze," commanded by Captain' ' Baice, and the Dutch Frigate Cue/der/and, under . the command of "Monsieur Beadait, the - crew Of the latter 'we-o no sooner removed on board the Kir ginie, than'her, prize, the Gtieideiland, was Observed to Ol on fire. While Captain litt . ACl; Was 'consult ing With his" First Lieutenant what was. best to be done on the alarming oceaSion;having nearly double the number of the enemy on board; Monsieur Da iEiiilEitE, addressing him, said, c.‘ Sir, I see your embarrassment, and, it you w..i1l allow me, f think I can relieve it :-.- , -send me on board; with fifty of my own people, and 1 trust We shall' be able to save' your pi ize. 1 scarcely need tender you my word of, 'honour tot 'my, return.''—captain BRACc accepted' this offer;: when Monsieur B4R - G-VaE, by„his prompt energy, extinguished the fire, and hinnediately re-; firmed; with his' people;on board the Pirginie. The :contest for the vacant office of Physician to.. . the Surrey Dispensary is carried on with a spirirang s scurril:ty, disgracefnl to several .01 the parties Con cerned. •• It is. quite shOcking to' see the gross and indecent. personalities cas t on suc h respeable cha raders as Dr. BABINOTON and Dr, CORRY, and it is much to their honour that thy appear to disdain that species of hostility. Who would believe that general knowledge and learning in.a liberal profes« liioll are requisite for the etlice in question. On Tuesday last a person belonging to Drury-lane Theatre; who had niounted by ,t ladder to the top of . ,'that building, with intention to sweep off the snow, fell, and, extraordinary 'as it May . appear, pitched on .a great quantity . of snow in the ‘i.aste ground near Brydges-street, without sustainng any serious. injury. An, unparalleled , insiptice of superstition,cruelty;• and awful isitatichi; occtfriiiia'a liort payed- since In the Hundred of I-f o h i a b farnfer of di s c;• dart - lea • Fenner, lost a consideratile Oatility . al porAty . by a - .. .. distemper Which they : wer6 selied Ata-d'havMg, sometime prior to their mOitt.dity, reCeived a preterit. of a duck froin a friend, it was suphsed,Troin'lijr laying. dun-coloured 'eggs, - that she had _been be witched by an elderly vC'ornan it) tille neighbOotlnod, and that such was'" the cause . oc theloises sustained.. In order to prevent a . recurrence' of Similar disasters, and to break the enchantment, it Was deter - it:tined, by an ignorant and siaperititiOns female servant, to burn the ill-fated, but int - tut:exit . lAPitii :live;', ,. ''ii . tell. 'horrid resolutihn she one m or:i i ng .carried into: pin- tice, by putting the' . poor animal in An' 'oven; and- burning a faggot of wood Over her.; i,vhiCh, thougic it completely consumed all her 4",!t.,athers, did not ex, tinguisb the vital • spark i on the following "horning • she repeated - her cruelty, notwithstanding which the. poor. duck still retained animation : 'on the, third day, being determtned to - effeti her birliat - Ous inten tion; she had recourse to the. following 4loci;ing:ex pedient—she.scr fire to a lirge faggot in' the oxen, add ivben- it bad completely taught , the flame, she put the already, tortured body of the poor duck on it, and confined it down; this sow terminated its ex , ' istence., - /it a short period.from -her inhunfan don:- duet s This unfortunate:dupe of superstition and igno-. ranee was seized, with • fits, which appears likean, awful dispen sation_ of Prov.idence, to' deprive her of', than life Which she was up worthy of, as: she sur vived•huia feW.days after, expiring- in the greatest p.i;anies„ .. • • '• : , CEDE KT. PRIVATE 'CORR ESPONDEKCE, Extrakfrom ad Official RepOn of Gen. KLERCKER, Commander in Chief of the Norlhein Anror of Finland, date Head=quarters at Uleaburgh, No. vembe*r.!..rsl Though- I have been compelled, by the vast Superiority of .the enemy's forces, to evacuate the province of Uleaburgh, which, independently of this consideration, I must have done, from the total. want of provisiOns and provender; yet I derive no small consolation froin the refleEtion, that I have gained time, pending the ,negociatiotr for ah Armis tice, and succeeded in obtaining ten clear days to evacuate the. Capital of this province. The interval I have employed in cuttinc , and sawing the ice, and fitting out small craft for the conveyance of stores, &c. and I have no doubt, from the arrangementS that hare been made, but -the whole of the artillery and anti - I - Mai - on will be saved. The check which the Russians experienced at \Virg, is wholly attri butable to the skill and bravery of Col. Reuteiskold and General Adlerkrueutz, - the latter of whim en couraged his troops by his presence and example; and your Majesty will be pleased to allow rue to state, that this General, notwithstadding the very critical situation in which your Majesty's army was placed, displayed his consummate abilities as a Ne• gociator of the Armistice, in rejetling, under every disadvantage, the unjust and dishonourable propo sition of the enemy, and by extricating our troops from impending destruaion." Extraß. from a private Letter, dated Stockholm, Decen3btbr'l•s'. -'•‘ .. A` Swedish - Messenger, Baron KlenkowstroM, Captain in the navy, set' out by:the last Mail for England. Ordets have been ;sent to Carlscrona to prepare 'the Fleet Tor the spring. We . talk of no thing but -- war. 'The. King is 'very 'popular, and niorefSo than he;ever was. Every thing is Drell, ast fir as re-.-latt.s to if)v7dt , ,.,, patriotism,- and devotion to he-zommoil ca'use but we have indeed hard times. The poor - suiT&:''Oxeeedingly from"privations of every wetiftve daily hundreds of emigrants from V‘ilo arrive in the most deplorable Condi.i tion, 'many of them being nearly naked. I heard td 7 oy that the English have subscribed for the-poor Finlanders.- :1 retnehaber ,when:- I was in Germans', smile time since; how ninth good the English did thersurely the'SA:edes have not forfeited their Viendshipntidesteein. are all astOniShed at the Itnqsian , General's agretirrient to -the Armistice— n,ooo Russians, and only 7000'S kl.:edes but thanks to our brave generat:Adlerkreinz, who would not agree' to' the first demands' made by the RUSilallii though 1* uas in a most critical situation." 'Report front Colonel H. E. ItEur.EnAotn, Chief of Br lade; dated What, Nov. I r.j., tBOO. On the 11th of November, at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the corps , pagSed on the other side of Lan• dex, and on the road to.-Kalajocki were attacked, and though I sent a Company•of the regimentOt Ny land to their assistance, they were forced to retreat, and having passed the giidge to Yppered, it w'as burnt, its order to check the. enemy, w h o were i n pursuit •of our 'trtiop3. Meanwhile -the entniy hay with' a-superior force, driven b.ick the outposts at Koskela and Pissila. I ordered the army to re treat Athout a mile, intending to halt at Wirat. The enemy advanced towards us about half a mile-. On our arrival at wirdt, • we:weresimmediaiely attacked by a new force, who formed a juntlioit with the other detachment of Russian troops, who by this time had come up: - . The battle commenced at half past four o'cloCk in the afternoon, and was main, tainect, with great obstinacy and bra Very tin both sides till ten' at night; and though ,the contiitiing armies were within twenty paces ()leach other, .the enemy, I mention with pride, was repulsed, and obliged to pass the night upon the snow, exposed to the *le-, 'mency of the weather, .without making a single e't. fort to citric:ate themselves." EUMr. It is somewhat extraordinary that a work so ge nerally read as HumE's . lfistDry . of ,England, should pass through.- several Editioas for the last .t. , 0 years, With th o.:oission of the'ellaraeler of Pope Julius the •writte.n• by the celebrated Author : ,tier.; such is the fad o l f ld tb , : t s the omission has been Made, and only very lately discovered by a Gentleman. of; Cork University. • The passage all hided to,, may be found in. the former editions of 1-iu t ne' s England, the reign of Henry VIII, about the•yeqr l;e 10, and on the subje& of: the League of Cambrar. • 'lt exhibits one ofthose sketches of cha racter fur which Hume 'is justly celebrated, and in The •best manner. The stile is vigorous, the co -louring imprzssive,' and the , Whole piece indicates -the , hand of a• master. his as follows : " Alex-ander the Sixth was .dead ; a man of a -singular character, and,. excepting his son, Cesar .lioegia, almost the only, man we read of in history, who ;.has joined great . capacity with the blackest vices•and the most abandoned profligacy of manner. Alter a short interv,ll,-Jnlius -the S econ d had • suc ,ceeded to the Papal throne, 'who, thong)) endowed with many•virtues, gave almost as much scandal to the .world, as ,his detested preilecessor : his virtues werleeitied.iisnitable 'nation of Sovereign Potgiti, , the spiritual-Judge and cominon father of Actup' tki . by an unextinguishable thirst of •infit-kitililt, in ht schemes, undaunted in his detatigable hi his pursuits; magnani mous,, imperious, doMineering ; :his vast Soul broke through all thetttevs,..-which'old ag e an d p r i estly .character imposed - upon. it, and, during his Pontifi cate, "1,14 the world in perpetual agitation.", - . . - „ MfiTIIODIST3,-A young Inair, vvho, was .in -tlie : habit, of attending a. Methodist • Cliape), near field, lately took poi s on an d died.- This dreadful as his been imputed 'to the •infittence produced by the doetrines held !oral ,by the Methodists, and.. the ter .rors-denounced against those who do not 410 up to 1 ,them. -It is certain .hat the Methodists have agree; ascentletacy,iii Vazious parts of this Island, and that ihpl are proceeding to-IrßeNhse their strength with illartu i lag rap diiy, -71.1its.prev!a" lence of, the mettaoditioal. coininnnitiy;,consideritig the opelation Of their -dor- Arines - on• the• unrefieaing mind, JA. a matter that mands particular . attention, asit ma tend tend to und e r.. I the mine due ,authority.and inittenc ti Our .ortho-. • dux - EstahlisutthAt•